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Multiple Choice
Questions on Cost Accounting
1. Costs that change in
response to alternative courses of action are called:
a. Relevant costs
b. Differential costs
c. Target costs
d. Sunk costs
2. The cost data
pertaining to Product ―X‖ of XL Ltd. are as follows :
Maximum capacity 30,000
units
Normal capacity 15,000
units
Increase in inventory
1,880 units
Variable cost per unit `
12
Selling price per unit `
50
Fixed manufacturing
overhead costs ` 3,60,000
If the profit under
Absorption costing method is ` 1,01,000, the profit under Marginal costing
method
would be
a. 1,46,120
b. 1,23,560
c. 55,880
d. 73,340
3. The total cost
incurred in the operation of a business undertaking other than the cost
of
manufacturing and
production is known as
a. Direct cost
b. Variable cost
c. Commercial cost
d. Conversion cost
4. Consider the following
data for a company during the month of June 2012
Budgeted hours 4,000
a. 111%
b. 120%
c. 95%
d. 117%
5. Total unit costs are
a.Independent of the
cost system, used to generate them
b.Needed for determining
product contribution
c.Irrelevant in marginal
analysis
d.Relevant for
cost-volume-profit analysis
6. Which of the following
bases is not appropriate for apportionment of Transport department‘s cost ?
a. Crane hours
b. Crane value
c. Truck Mileage
d. Truck value
7. The cost of obsolete
inventory acquired several years ago, to be considered in a keep vs.
disposal
a.Uncontrollable cost
b.Sunk cost
c.Avoidable cost
d.Opportunity cost
8. Budgeted sales for the
next year is 5,00,000 units. Desired ending finished goods inventory is
a. 5,80,000
b. 5,50,000
c. 5,00,000
d. 5,75,000
9. If the asset turnover
and profit margin of a company are 1.85 and 0.35 respectively, the return
on
a. 0.65
b. 0.35
c. 1.50
d. 5.29
10. A company is
currently operating at 80% capacity level. The production under normal
capacity level is 1,50,000 units. The variable cost per unit is ` 14 and the total fixed costs are ` 8,00,000. If the company wants to earn a profit of ` 4,00,000, then the price of the product per unit should be
a. 37.50
b. 38.25
c. 24.00
d. 35.00
11. Consider the following
data pertaining to the production of a company for a particular month :
Opening stock of raw
material ` 11,570
Closing stock of raw
material ` 10,380
Purchase of raw material
during the month ` 1,28,450
Total manufacturing cost
charged to product ` 3,39,165
Factory overheads are
applied at the rate of 45% of direct labour cost.
The amount of factory
overheads applied to production is
a. 65,025
b. 94,287
c. 95,020
d. 1,52,624
12. The budgeted annual
sales of a firm is ` 80 lakhs and 25% of the same is cash sales. If the
average
a. 1.50
b. 1.00
c. 0.50
d. 1.75
13. If the minimum stock
level and average stock level of raw material ―A‖ are 4,000 and 9,000 units
respectively, find out its reorder quantity.
a. 8,000 units
b. 11,000 units
c. 10,000 units
d. 9,000 units
14. A worker has a time
rate of ` 15/hr. He makes 720 units of component (standard time : 5
minutes/
a. 792
b. 820
c. 840
d. 864
15. A company maintains a
margin of safety of 25% on its current sales and earns a profit of ` 30 lakhs
per annum. If the company has a profit volume (P/V) ratio of 40%, its current
sales amount to
a. 200 lakhs
b. 300 lakhs
c. 325 lakhs
d. None of the above
16. Sale for two
consecutive months, of a company are ` 3,80,000 and ` 4,20,000. The company‘s
net
a. 1/3
b. 2/5
c. ¼
d. None of the above
17. A Limited has fixed
costs of ` 6,00,000 per annum. It manufactures a single product which it sells
for 200 per unit. Its contribution to sales ratio is 40%. A Limited‘s
break-even in units is
a. 7,500
b. 8,000
c. 3,000
d. 1,500
[Hint : Break-even units
= Fixed cost / contribution per unit
= ` 6,00,000/ 40% of `
200
= 7,500]
18. The current
liabilities of Akash Ltd. is ` 30,000. If its current ratio is 3:1 and Quick
ratio is 1:1, the value of stock-in-trade will be
a. 20,000
b. 30,000
c. 60,000
d. Insufficient
information
[Hint : Current Ratio =
Current Assets = 3:1
Current Liabilities
Current Assets = `
30,000 x 3 = ` 90,000
Quick Ratio =
Quick Assets = 1:1
Quick Liabilities
Liquid assets = `
30,000 x 1 = ` 30,000
Hence, value of
stock-in-trade : CA – LA = ` (90,000 – 30,000)
= ` 60,000]
19. If the capacity usage
ratio of a production department is 90% and activity ratio is 99% then
the
1. 100%
2. 120%
3. 110%
4. 105%
[Hint : Efficiency ratio
(ER) = Std. hr. of production ÷ Actual hrs.
Activity ratio
(AR) = Std. hrs. for production ÷ Budgeted hrs.
Capacity ratio
(CR) = Actual hrs. ÷ Budgeted hrs.
Hence, ER = AR /
CR = 99% / 90% = 110%]
20. In two consecutive
periods, sales and profit were ` 1,60,000 and ` 8,000 respectively in the
first
1. 20%
2. 25%
3. 30%
4. 40%
Answers
1 b 2 c 3 c 4 a 5 c 6 b
7 b
8 a 9 a 10 c 11 a 12 b
13 c 14 d
15 b 16 b 17 a 18 c 19 3 20 3
